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Your favourite 12WT rod ?
Hello boy-os,
Having recently had my first real experience with what I consider to be a proper 12WT and casting it for a short while, I found it to be quite an eye opener.
Coming from a FW background, one tends to think of a 10WT as a cannon or a stick and a half, untill you get a proper 12WT in your grubby little mitts.
Having cast other 12WTs from a few different manufacturers before, this particular stick was noticeably more powerful and you could feel it just screamed "OOMPH" !
It was a G.Loomis Crosscurrent GLX and if I had the bucks for one, I'd probably buy two.
Now my question, from the dedicated SW guys, what is your favourite 12WT and why ?
"Hierdie drol het baie vlieë" - Ago 2014.
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Howzit Scythe
That Loomis is a super comfortable canon and quite possibly the best heavy casting stick.
I fish the Thomas and Thomas. The T&T sticks can, at least in my opinion, take far more punishment on boats than what the Loomis and Sage can. This is my primary consideration but they are also super casting sticks over long periods of time and they have the backbone required to pull on hectic fish.
The other option is of course to look at Sage but those are only for snobs.
Cheers
MC
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Scythe - From what I've fished, I'd go the GLX Crosscurrent hands down.... But I've not fished the T&T's so cannot comment on them... obviously MC has ALOT more experience and has fished most rods so his statement on them is golden....
I guess I just have a thing for G.Loomis, even though I don't own any, and probably never will.... my 12wt Horizon's have served me very well so far...
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SAGE RPLXi 12 weight.
Old.....yep, fished it for years!
Custom built by Derrick Smith ...... oh...and it's caught a few!
Neptune...nice avatar....notice it's the same as Finatic's in NZ on their website?
Subtract the band?
Heard them?
Good band!
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T+T for me, and I'm not knocking the opposition, just I have no reason to change
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Only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge)
Hookjaw
Xplorer Guide Series 3pcs is my favourate.
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Lou Tabory designed XX 12wt (both models...one has single grip, the other has two grips (FWells and a foregrip)).
Edit: It's a little faster than the Sage Xi2 12wt, but I also LOVE the Xi2!!
Last edited by Michael; 06-03-09 at 12:18 PM.
Steelhead
They sound like some other real stuff!
However are they as sensitive as a 3wt hollow fibreglass?
The more you know, the less you need (Aboriginal Australian proverb)
Only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge)
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They are as sensitive as Herman is over his Ark...Originally Posted by chris williams
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Give me a 14 weight besem broomstick any day!!
The more you know, the less you need (Aboriginal Australian proverb)
Only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge)
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